Strategy quotes

Attack! Always Attack!
-- Adolf Anderssen

#Chess #Strategy

Let's execute along this strategy, but know that we'll probably get some of this wrong, so be open to changing it.
-- Alan G. Lafley

#Great Business #Strategy

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.
-- Alexander Alekhine

#Chess #Beast #Strategy

It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan at all. The worst thing is to wander about aimlessly.
-- Alexander Kotov

#Play #Chess #Strategy

If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.
-- Alvin Toffler

#Technology #Strategy #Ecommerce

If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient.
-- Amartya Sen

#Justice #Choices #Strategy

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
-- Andrew Young

#Wish #Strategy #Worst

But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.
-- Anil Kapoor

#Roles #Unconventional #Strategy

The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal.
-- Anthony Stafford Beer

#Important #Strategy

It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
-- Ben Horowitz

#Jobs #Strategy #Turns

Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.
-- Ben Silbermann

#People #Strategy #Made

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Two #Strategy #Dangerous

No, we don't sit around in dark corners and plan strategies on how we're going to slant the news. We don't have to. It comes naturally to most reporters.
-- Bernard Goldberg

#Dark #News #Strategy

Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Risk #Strategy #Efficiency

Giving is not a strategy. It's a way of life.
-- Bob Burg

#Giving #Way #Strategy

I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.
-- Brad Grey

#Style #Way #Strategy

All strategy depends on competition.
-- Bruce Henderson

#Competition #Strategy

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
-- Carlos Ghosn

#Tactics #Incentives #Strategy

I think Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are the cornerstones of any social media strategy.
-- Chad Hurley

#Thinking #Media #Strategy

Guys are natural problem solvers - they like to have strategies.
-- Chadwick Boseman

#Guy #Problem #Strategy

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
-- Charles J. Givens

#Strategy #Habit #Achieve

The result of bad communication is a disconnection between strategy and execution.
-- Chuck Martin

#Communication #Execution #Strategy

Death is my exit strategy. I'll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live.
-- Craig Newmark

#Long #Exit #Strategy

I am committed to doing customer service for Craigslist for the rest of my life. The exit strategy is death.
-- Craig Newmark

#Exit #Strategy #Craigslist

Jayden laughed grimly. 'Press the attack and hope for the best.' 'Hope is not a strategy,' said Kira 'It's not plan A,' said Jayden, 'and it shouldn't be plan B, but it is every plan C that has ever been made.
-- Dan Wells

#Kira #Strategy #Made

The Israelis are very smart about politics and strategy, but there are a few exceptions. One is Lebanon, the other is Gaza, where they were completely inept.
-- Daniel Pipes

#Smart #Lebanon #Strategy

When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.
-- Daniel Suarez

#Civilization #Survival #Strategy

Make generosity part of your growth strategy.
-- Danielle LaPorte

#Generosity #Growth #Strategy

Ultimately the success of any nonproliferation strategy requires a universal standard. Washington's "Do as I say, not as I do" approach lacks moral authority and is seen as hypocritical. It is like preaching temperance from a bar stool.
-- David Cortright

#Bars #Moral #Strategy

Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.
-- David Dreman

#Ships #Strategy #Abandon

The mega-strategy of Jesus: make disciples.
-- David Platt

#Jesus #Strategy #Mega

My strategy is just to attack, attack and attack.
-- Don Frye

#Strategy

In a downturn, aggressive PR and communications strategy is key.
-- Douglas Leone

#Communication #Keys #Strategy

Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
-- Douglas MacArthur

#Victory #Strategy #Ultimate

Any chief executive who hires a consultant to give them strategy should be fired.
-- Duff McDonald

#Giving #Strategy #Chief Executives

Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself.
-- Eckhart Tolle

#Ego #Complaining #Strategy

The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy,
-- Edward Lampert

#Important #Exit #Strategy

Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.
-- Edward Said

#Past #Strategy #Interpretation

To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification.
-- Emanuel Lasker

#Sound #Chess #Strategy

A pivot is a change in strategy without a change in vision.
-- Eric Ries

#Entrepreneur #Vision #Strategy

The vocation of pastor(s) has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.
-- Eugene H. Peterson

#Religious #Entrepreneur #Strategy

We do not have a plan. They do. History shows that those that plan, anticipate and have a coherent strategy usually win. We are not winning.
-- Fjordman

#Winning #Strategy #Shows

When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable.
-- Fred Couples

#Motivational #Sports #Strategy

Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.
-- Gail Pool

#Journey #Maps #Strategy

A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.
-- Garry Kasparov

#Matter #Brilliant #Strategy

What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.
-- Gary North

#Dominion #Strategy #Ten Commandments

The best marketing strategy ever: CARE
-- Gary Vaynerchuk

#Marketing #Care #Strategy

Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait.
-- Gavin de Becker

#Character #Decision #Strategy

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.
-- George McGovern

#Integrity #Truth Is #Strategy

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.
-- George S. Patton

#Tactics #Strategy #Worst

Any seasoned deal maker will tell you that spontaneous negotiation's a bad strategy; the ad hoc approach will leave you ripped-off, busted, conned, stiffed, outsmarted and generally holding the shitty end of the stick.
-- Glen Duncan

#Sticks #Spontaneous #Strategy

As I have said, the best Bush strategy is to put Congress on TV as often as possible.
-- Glenn Reynolds

#Politics #Tvs #Strategy

Even God used silence as a strategy.
-- Gregory Maguire

#Silence #Strategy #Used

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.
-- Grover Norquist

#Practice #Rooms #Strategy

Strategy is a system of expedients
-- Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

#Strategy

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point.
-- Henry Mintzberg

#Opposites #Planning #Strategy

Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions
-- Henry Mintzberg

#Decision #Patterns #Strategy

Most of the time, strategies should not be formulating strategy at all; they should be getting on with implementing strategies they already have.
-- Henry Mintzberg

#Strategy #Should

Survival is a growth strategy.
-- Ian Hogarth

#Growth #Survival #Strategy

I've just been lucky to work on things that I felt would be cool to see. It's not that I had a strategy or anything.
-- J. J. Abrams

#Would Be #Lucky #Strategy

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.
-- Jack Welch

#Strategy #Results #Employee

Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.
-- Jamais Cascio

#Stress #Strategy #Turns

Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel.
-- Jamais Cascio

#Tunnels #Wind #Strategy

Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.
-- James Cameron

#Luck #Strategy

Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.
-- James Spithill

#Motivational #Guy #Strategy

The transaction reflects our disciplined strategy of investing capital in core businesses where we can leverage scale and expertise for competitive advantage. In addition to being a great strategic fit, the deal is compelling financially.
-- Jamie Dimon

#Investing #Fit #Strategy

hindsight is not a strategy.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn

#Planning #Strategy #Hindsight

Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies
-- Jean Ziegler

#Hierarchy #Corporations #Strategy

If you don't have a mobile strategy, you're in deep turd,
-- Jen-Hsun Huang

#Strategy #Turds

The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.
-- Jerry Brown

#Population #Strategy #Breaking Down

Obviously my best strategy is to wait, listen, and learn.
-- Jim Starlin

#Waiting #Strategy

There are forces at work you do not perceive. I weave a delicate strategy which rash actions could rend. Patience , please.
-- Jim Starlin

#Action #Strategy #Force

I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy -- make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls.
-- John F. Kerry

#Political #Strategy #Polls

The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.
-- John Gregory Dunne

#Lasts #Strategy #Negotiation

Bandwagoning is a strategy for the weak.
-- John Mearsheimer

#Strategy #Weak

Decapitation is a fanciful strategy.
-- John Mearsheimer

#Strategy

If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it's not everyone else that's the problem.
-- John Scalzi

#Flirting #Problem #Strategy

The secret to life and the greatest success strategy of all is to love all of it and fear none of it.
-- Jon Gordon

#Secret #Strategy #Fear None

...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.
-- Jonah Goldberg

#Politics #Opponents #Strategy

My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.
-- Jose Maria Aznar

#Israel #West #Strategy

Nurture doubt as a creative strategy.
-- Joshua L. Goldberg

#Creative #Doubt #Strategy

It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios.
-- Julie Bishop

#Government #Facts #Strategy

I gotta new strategy it's called no strategy. And I gotta way to sell more music its called make better music.
-- Kanye West

#Way #Strategy

Without competitors there would be no need for strategy.
-- Kenichi Ohmae

#Would Be #Needs #Strategy

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
-- Kofi Annan

#Player #Men #Strategy

Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.
-- Larry Ellison

#Acquisition #Done #Strategy

At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.
-- Lawrence Bossidy

#People #The End Of The Day #Strategy

Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy.
-- Lena Olin

#Roles #Way #Strategy

You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.
-- Leon Trotsky

#May #Strategy

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.
-- Leonard Cohen

#Anxiety #Speak #Strategy

Stalking is an underrated startup strategy.
-- Linda Rottenberg

#Strategy #Stalking #Underrated

Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold

#Momentum #Way #Strategy

I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.
-- Lorne Michaels

#Community #Strategy #Consumerism

Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy.
-- Marco Pierre White

#Talent #Strategy

The best strategy for building a competitive organization is to help individuals  become more of who they are.
-- Marcus Buckingham

#Organization #Helping #Strategy

I'm a huge boxing fan. I love the strategy and the combat.
-- Mark McGrath

#Boxing #Fans #Strategy

I urge telecommunications regulators to develop a commercial strategy for delivering effective access to the continent.
-- Mark Shuttleworth

#Strategy #Continents

This strategy represents our policy for all time. Until it's changed.
-- Marlin Fitzwater

#Political #Strategy #Changed

A global brand building strategy is, in reality, a local plan for every market.
-- Martin Lindstrom

#Reality #Strategy #Building

Branding is the process of connecting good strategy with good creativity.
-- Marty Neumeier

#Creativity #Strategy #Branding